This is what I'm hanging my hat on in the event Fitz and the Grand Jury no-bill these guys. This is my break-glass-in-event-of-disappointment line of thinking. That may be a downer, but I do think its a big deal.

What, exactly, is that big deal?

Simply this: They have been made afraid.

For days, even weeks now, these cretins who believed themselves above the law in every way have known true fear. For the very first time.

so many possible witnesses have been identified as possibley complicit in treachery that it will be impossible to be kept secret in the days, weeks, months, years to come. They can sit on it, but like mud, it will squish out around their butts. Someone will squeal. Someone will be greedy enough to write a book. Someone's mother, wife, daughter, lover will tell....BUT IT WILL COME OUT IN THE END.

Expect indictments? I won't be disappointed if they don't come because this IS the teflon administration, after all.

We have them dead to rights and we have (what seems to be)an honest prosecutor working for the truth.

The backlash from a failed prosecution is boundto be unbelievably brutal.They won't make this mistake again.You can almost certainly count on the next prosecutor, if ever there is one, being a hand-picked bush boy.

is the public reaction. The press has NOT been covering this in the way that the public has come to expect for a scandal. The Clenis coverage was saturation-level for months and months on end, and when impeachment came, everyone was expecting it.

Now, look at the headlines of your local paper over the last week. CNN does not have a word about this on their home page. The Post has "Bush and Bono have lunch". If Fitzgerald indicts 22 members of the Cheney/Bush administration, no one will believe it. I can only hope that one effect of this will be for Joe Public to develop an deep and pervasive contempt for the corporate media cartel, saying "Why the f*ck didn't you warn us about this? You mean you didn't know? How could you not know? Where was the non-stop coverage in the lead-up to indictments? Why should we ever believe a single thing that you ever even say again??"

Prepare for massive cognitive dissonace. No one I talk to knows a damn thing about this.

The only thing standing between them and total victory is legal conviction in a court of law and jailtime.

Bad ratings, GOP losing 2006 and 2008 elections, bad press, future disgrace, losing issues debates like SS,...all that still matters to us greatly, but not to the small group of neocons at the helm of this administration and not to their corporate beneficiaries.

They've already succeeded, wildly, in their major goals and will remain heroes among their biggest (corporate and fundie) fans for decades. They've enriched their friends with ungodly amounts of money that will never find its way back home where it belongs. And they are still standing.

I imagine they anticipated second term investigations, bad press, attacks by the opposition party,maybe even indictment of some in their group, and maybe even impeachment. I imagine they believed that the goal was worth the risks. I imagine that, every morning, they are amazed they've managed to stay in office one more day, and are encouraged to continue their assault on honesty, truth, transparency, democracy, and civility because it has worked so well.

They should be afraid and I'd like to think they are, but that is not nearly enough for me. There can't be restitution or repair for many of their misdeeds...so there has to be punishment.

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